86 eECKONTD^. 



12. Phyllodactylus sancti-johannis. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) 



Paroedura sancti johannis, Giinth. Ann. 8f Map. Nat. Hist. (6) iii. 

 1879, p. 218. 



Head large, oviform, very distinct from neck ; the skin confluent 

 with the cranial ossification ; forehead with a deep longitudinal 

 concavity ; eye large, very prominent ; snout longer than the dis- 

 tance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and one third the 

 diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening narrow, vertical, half the 

 diameter of the eye. Body moderate. Limbs very long and slender. 

 Digits slender, depressed at the base, with two rows of lamellae 

 inferiorly, which are broken up into small tubercles some distance 

 before the distal expansion ; latter subcordiform, moderately large, 

 measuring about one third the diameter of the eye. Head covered 

 with polygonal scales, elongate and feebly keeled on the snout and 

 interorbital space ; temple with a row of four larger keeled tubercles. 

 Rostral four-sided, twice as broad as high ; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and five nasals ; ten upper and as many 

 lower labials ; mental small, triangular, in contact with two large 

 elongate hexagonal chin-shields; a smaller outer pair of similar 

 shields and a second row of small polygonal chin-shields. Upper 

 surface of body with irregular small flat scales intermixed with 

 larger, oval, keeled tubercles ; these are arranged in about eight 

 irregular series along the back. Abdominal scales smooth, roundish, 

 subimbricate. Limbs above with rather large, imbricate, keeled 

 scales. Tail cylindrical, tapering, rather swollen in its anterior 

 half, covered with irregular smooth scales intermixed with large 

 keeled tubercles arranged in transverse series on the dorsal side ; 

 towards the end of the tail all the tubercles are spine-like, closely 

 set. Brownish above ; a black spot on the occiput ; back with three 

 broad transverse dark bands ; tail with dark annuli above ; lower 

 surfaces dirty white. 



Total length 117 millim. 



Head 19 



Width of head 13 



Body 48 



Fore limb 24 



Hind limb 33 



TaH 50 



Comoro Islands. 

 a. Ad. Johanna. 0. E. Bewsher, Esq. [C.]. (Type.) 



13. Phyllodactylus stumpfB. 



stumpfH, Boettger, Ber. Senck. Ge 

 les. XI. 1878, p. 18, and xii. 1882, 



Head large, oviform, very distinct from neck ; the skin confluent 



Phyllodactylus stumpffi, BoetUjer, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1878-79, p. 86, and 

 Abh. Senck. Ges. xi. 1878, p. 18, and xii. 1882, p. 472, pi. ii. fig. 9. 



